As a child of an officer in the Marines, we did move quite a bit when I was very young. My books and my art were the only constant companions I had. They were my comfort and my saving grace. Still, I was fairly confident and happy then, living in a really nice community in New Jersey. When, shortly before I turned 13, we moved to Florida, and my life, and my ability to handle life, took a slight turn for the worse....little did I know that would become the impetus for my first book, more than thirty years later.